Exhibit a century French Indochina

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Trien shows "Indochina, the land and its people 1856-1956" will be opened on 16.10.2013 and lasted until 26.1.2014 at the Military Museum in Paris France.

Nearly 400 artifacts, including costumes, rubbings, archives, movies, weapons ... are gathered from the Military Museum, the Quai Branly Museum and the archives of the French overseas territories will be exhibited in an area of 600m2, contribute to reproduce a hundred year history of the French presence in Indochina. 

The exhibition will introduce the image not only the soldiers and officers first French expedition in the mid-19th century, the ethnographer, geographer France, where both fighters fought in Indochina against the French and Vietnamese soldiers Ming won the battle of Dien Bien Phu history month 5/1954. 

General Christian Baptiste, Director Army Museum in Paris, stressed the museum does not want to act as lawyers or prosecutors, but only restate all the way to explain and illustrate the science of the period of colonial history . 

The exhibition also will display the first map of the Mekong Delta and the border with the presence of the French, the image of the armed forces, missionaries and officials in charge of managing and colonial exploitation. These uniforms and weapons also reminiscent of tens of thousands of gunmen Indochina fought in France and Europe in two world wars.


Space exhibition France - Indochina (Source: Internet)

Also shows the presence of two splendid dynasty silk embroidery for the General Director Nguyen Tri Phuong, who has become a symbol of the spirit of the people of Vietnam war before the invasion of France. 

A pressure plate posters of the French Communist Party after 1945, are located in the end of the exhibition space, calling for an end to hostilities with the words, "It is too full mourning, too much money has been wasted." 

The shape sick Hunger of French soldiers lying on the stretcher, was recorded in the archive footage of troops and a few dozen photos demonstrate this phase, showed adventure has become a disaster for thousands French soldiers survived the battle of Dien Bien Phu. 

Also at the end of the exhibition space, a black and white photo size to reiterate that end of the Indochina war marked the beginning of the Vietnam War, American soldiers instead French foot soldiers. 

The exhibition of the Army Museum in Paris opening for "Winter Ocean" with the participation of the Guimet Museum in Paris and the Museum of 30s in Boulogne-Billancourt.

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